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Man Looks To Turn Historic Duluth Jail Into Urban Destination
DULUTH, Minn. (WCCO) — For the past 20 years, the old St. Louis County Jail stood as a vacant reminder of trouble. It was an unwanted fixture in downtown Duluth...until a Twin Cities developer heard the cries of those looking to preserve the property. Now, Grant Carlson hopes to turn the jail into the most popular address in town. With its commanding view of Duluth, it seems hard to ...
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3 Years After Program’s Inception Kotila Has Century In World Series
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Three years ago, Century College decided to start a baseball program. They hired a man who had experience after taking Ridgewater Community College to the Junior College World Series. And now that’s where Dwight Kotila has the Century squad — getting ready for a run at a national title, just a few years after the program’s inception. ...
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Think Gas Prices Are Bad For Boaters Race Car Drivers Have It Worse
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The national average for a gallon of gas has gone up 17 days in a row. But here in the Twin Cities, gas has dropped three cents to an average of $4.17 a gallon. That’s still quite a bit higher than the national average. And boaters are feeling the pinch. Last weekend on Lake Minnetonka, the price was $5.39 a gallon. But people with boats we talked with say the ...
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Cheaper Prince Tickets To Entice ‘Casual’ Fans
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – "Purple Rain" solidified Prince’s status as one of the greats. Like many Prince fans, Jesse McMonagle remembers where he was when he saw Prince's cinematic debut. "I snuck into 'Purple Rain' when I was in fourth grade," McMonagle said. And when tickets went on sale for a St. Paul stop on Prince’s "Live Out Loud ...
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Wedding Venues Services Seeing Rise In Bookings For This Fall
Same sex weddings in Minnesota are expected to bring in $42 million, and increased tax revenues of $3 million. ';This isn’t going just something that’s going to be a quick, ‘Let’s jump on the bandwagon and do this’ thing,'; said Eliesa Johnson of Photogen Inc. ';It really is going to affect the industry for the long-term.'; In talking with a ...
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Hospital Boy Injured In St. Paul Landslide In Fair Condition
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - One of the fourth-graders injured in Wednesday's landslide in St. Paul is currently in fair condition, according to Regions Hospital and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. The hospital announced Friday afternoon that Devon Meldahl was admitted to the trauma center on Wednesday. The landslide happened that afternoon in Lilydale Park, and it left Meldahl and ...
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Archdiocese to ordain largest class of priests since 2005
When Luke Marquard was a senior at a Faribault Catholic school, then Archbishop Harry Flynn told him he looked a lot like a priest Flynn knew. After a dinner for top graduates he hosted, Flynn sent Marquard a head shot of that priest, with a note: "This is what you're going to look like when you're older." "I thought, 'Oh, man, I am going to look like a ...
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Minnesota Twins promote P.J. Walters delay Kevin Correias next start
DETROIT -- Armed with strong numbers at Comerica Park, journeyman right-hander P.J. Walters is being promoted from Triple-A Rochester to start Saturday afternoon's game for the Twins against the Detroit Tigers. Walters, 28, has gone 1-0 with a 2.92 ERA in two career starts in Detroit. Overall against the high-powered Tigers lineup, Walters is 1-1 with a 3.20 ERA in five outings (four ...
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Minnesota Twins Trevor Plouffe feeling better after head injury
DETROIT -- While all indications were encouraging for Twins third baseman Trevor Plouffe, he said he had yet to be informed whether he suffered concussion Tuesday night. "I mean, was it not a concussion? Has that been stated?" Plouffe said Friday afternoon. "I don't even know. They haven't told me anything, trust me. I just do all the stuff they tell me to do. I never ...
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Minnesota lawmakers raise taconite tax to help pay for Iron Range school construction
Minnesota's per-ton tax on taconite iron ore produced in the state will increase a dime this year, and the extra money will be dedicated to help rebuild and retool Iron Range schools. The taconite provision was included in the 2013 Legislature's final omnibus tax bill, which Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law Thursday. The per-ton tax on taconite will increase to $2.56. Half the ...
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Bayport well owners warned of water standard changes
A cluster of private well owners near Bayport is being told to start filtering their water -- because of changing safety standards for a local pollutant. The state Department of Health mailed letters May 24 to owners of 130 wells in Bayport, Baytown Township and West Lakeland Township. The state has changed its allowable limits for a pollutant called TCE -- so those limits are now under the ...
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St. Paul begins search for answers after mudslide that took two young lives
"We are just heartbroken. I prayed all the way here and I will pray all the way home," said Laurie Amos of St. Louis Park as she places flowers by a makeshift memorial in front of St. Louis Park's Peter Hobart Elementary School on May 23, 2013, to honor two students who died on a field trip to Lilydale Regional Park in St. Paul a day earlier. (Pioneer Press: Scott ...
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Lilydale Park landslide Injured boys identified
< 200){ requestedWidth = 200; } The two St. Louis Park fourth-graders injured in the Lilydale Regional Park landslide were identified as Lucas Lee and Devon Meldahl, St. Paul police said Friday afternoon. The conditions of the boys, both from St. Louis Park, were not immediately known, said Patty Dunn, spokeswoman at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. The boys were on a ...
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Movie Blog ‘Hangover’ ‘Fast Furious’ Franchises Drive On
As bad as so many sequels are, I often find myself feeling sorrier for the characters in them than the audiences who subject themselves to overly familiar franchises. I mean, think about it. Can you imagine being the characters in the Hangover series? Caught in an endless cycle of increasingly less amusing catastrophes, coping with the growing certainty that some unjust, omniscient force with a ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 24
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Atlanta Braves: 1. ...
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Mpls. to pay $3M in police misconduct case
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died after struggling with police at the Minneapolis ...
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Roseville police seek help identifying mall groping suspect
Roseville police are asking the public to help identify a man suspected of groping a woman in a Crossroads of Roseville Mall parking lot Saturday, May 18. The 51-year-old woman was reportedly putting items into her trunk around 8 p.m. when she felt someone grab her butt and partially push her into the trunk of her car, according to information provided Friday by Roseville police. The man then ...
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Intense sports training school eyes national expansion
Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John Doman) For ...
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Ex-Minneapolis police officer facing more sex charges
The latest round of criminal charges filed against a former Minneapolis police officer accused of soliciting young girls online include allegations he repeatedly had sex with a 16-year-old he lured to his car during the summer of 2010. Eight additional charges were filed Friday against Bradley Schnickel in Anoka County District Court, bringing the total number of criminal counts now facing the ...
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Xcel agrees to pay penalty in chemical fire that killed five men
. Xcel Energy will pay $150,000 in penalties for workplace safety violations at one of the utilitys Colorado power plants where five men died in a chemical fire. Five California men died Oct. 2, 2007, at the utilitys Cabin Creek hydroelectric plant near Georgetown, Colo., after a fire broke out inside a drained water tunnel connected to the plant. The men were resealing the tunnel when a ...
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After sons death Mound mothers mission is to protect children who travel abroad
Sheryl Hill Tyler Hill of Mound was barely 16 when he died after hiking Mount Fuji in Japan. Later, he came to his grieving mother in a vision. "I saw my son in spirit. He was massive, 10 feet tall, he looked like a rainbow aura with glistening lights," Sheryl Hill says. "I asked him, 'Why, Tyler? Why did you die a preventable death?' And then he told me (and I ...
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Engineering and design students partner to redesign lab space
Engineering and design may seem like an unlikely partnership, but for a group working to redesign lab space for student groups, it’s the coolest part of their project. University of Minnesota students from the College of Science and Engineering and the College of Design have been working on a project to redesign and renovate three rooms in Keller Hall for student groups’ use. ...
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Beyond Bounds Dribbling 400 Miles Across MN For Social Change
Alex Daley (back left) and Matt Scott (back right) believe in soccer’s ability to cross cultures, and proved it, building a soccer pitch while living in Nepal this year.(credit: Dribble Daily) I’ll be honest. Yes, it’s my job to research and report on amazing stories such as the duo who’ll traverse Minnesota’s 400 miles by dribbling from International Falls to the ...
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Roseville Cops Look For Man Accused Of Parking Lot Sexual Assault
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (WCCO) - Roseville Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman in the Crossroads of Roseville Mall parking lot Saturday night. According to authorities, the alleged assault occurred at approximately 8:20 p.m. when a man walked up to a 51-year-old woman who was putting items in her trunk. The man allegedly ...
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Xcel Energy Center dusts off fix-it wish list after Legislature frees up money for arena
The Xcel Energy Center in 2008. (Pioneer Press: Sherri LaRose-Chiglo) Ripping up the seats at the Xcel Energy Center likely will be among the first orders of business for Minnesota Sports and Entertainment. But that's just for starters. High-definition scoreboards, two new escalators, wider concourses and improvements to the entrances of the 13-year-old downtown sports arena are also high ...
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Block E's future finally brighter?
Block E has long been cursed with misfortune and a bad reputation. The acquisition of the mall of the same name, which stands on a block with a troubled history, may signal a change in fortune for the area.
Block E. For residents of Minneapolis the downtown city block has been a source of good times and bad, highs and lows, affluence and squalor, for almost one hundred years. Read more
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